Comparing Rap And Hip Hop

Imagine someone comes up to you and says Rap & Hip Hop are the same thing? Me personally, I would literally write a paper about the differences between the two. Oh wait… that’s besides the point, the point is, Rap is way different than hip hop. Hip hop has four elements, one which is similar with rap. One of which rap and hip hop share is DJing. The other 3 are about MCing,B-Boying, and graffiti. “I think the element of hip-hop left when rap music started being created on a slow tempo...It's just stayed there for years. Right now, a lot of rap music today is being created at very low tempos,” says Flava Flav to a reporter. The elements are what keep hip-hop different than rap. Now it just all sounds a little alike. When you hear a common rap song named “Headlines” and compare it between an also common known hip-hop song “Antidote”, which one sounds like Hip-hop and which one sounds like rap? Antidote sounds more like rap because he has a slower tempo and “Headlines” has more of a faster tempo and he is trying to sing while “Antidote is trying to rap a little. Not only that but also another reason why Rap is different from Hip-hop.

When you go on youtube or google and watch the lyrics, you can see what those lyrics mean. Rap mostly tells a story in the lyrics, such as Eminem and his songs. They mostly contain stories in them. His song “Mockingbird” tells the story of his little girl named Hailie and how he misses her and he states in the song that he will always be there. But in Hip-hop, they are not going for an emotional pull. They are hooking their listeners in with a good beat. Which I can’t blame them, a good beat is what makes the song the best ever. Like the song “Turn Down For What” by Dj Snake. There are literally no words besides turn down for what. But it got it’s popularity by the beat. Here is “another one” of the